Sharp County record., 1887-12-22
Meal 60 cents at Sharp's mill.

Nice apples for 81 so per bushel
at Spurlock & Coger's.
John Gardner and family of the
Grange neighborhood, were visiting
Evening Shade relatives last week,
Alex. Henderson's liquor is becom-
ing aged and mellow. Guaranteed 100
proof. z
Mrs. H. T. Johns of this place,
is very low with typhoid fever.
DIR. Henry Brown is erecting a
neat cottage in the east end, and will
soon have it ready for occupancy.
Don't fail to attend the concert
next Monday night. The program
will be one of the best ever present
ed in Evening Shade.
The old dilapidated gin-house
in the south side of town is death
trap for both man and beast, and
should be razed at once.
Marshal Phillips reports five
beavers as the result of a few weeks
trapping near his place, while Sam
Turney is just behind his neighbor
with four of their valuable skins.
Rev. r. D. Moon, the new
preacher for Evening Shade and La
Crosse station for the next confer
ence year, has located with us and
occupies the Smith property on the
north side of town.
A sharp wind from the northwest
continued all day last Tuesday, blow
ing the mercury down to 20 degrees,
while snowfakes were flying here
and there just enough to encourage
Santa Claus to start on his annual
tour.
john, brother to our townsman
Joseph Williams, died last Sunday
at his home near Evening Shade, of
consumption; aged 90 years. We
extend SYM athy to the bereaved
relatives and friends.
Tom McCaleb is buying up all
the calves in this section that are
old enough to leave their mammies.
Tom, though good trader, is not a
rood iudee of fro venng bovine.
and therefore failed to make a trade
with the RECORD rancheman.
The proceeds arising from the
concert on the night of the 26th
will be used for purchasing Sunday
school literature. Those who attend
will be certain to get their moneys
worth, besides assist a worthy insti-
teton. Come ont every body; tick
cts only % cents.
A large stage has heen erected in
the main room of the Acadamy uilding
which has been used vt night for about G
week for hearsals by the Concert Club.
THIS club is composed of some of the
b st hstrionic talent in this community,
the plays now in hand are from the best
authors of farces and amateur theat!icals
and the paI ticipants, we are informed,
a being trained by an experienced hand.
Now, for the Rec RID to promise the peo
pie rst-class entertainment next Mon
day night, it Is supported by its own
knowledge Ct the ability of those who
have parts and the character of the pro-
gram for the evening.
Walter Metcalf has been assisting in
the RECORD Office for the past week.
Walter is remark able boy, While he
loves fre-crackers, ball, marbles and all
other juvenile games, las be isonly l4)
he is possessed of an mate thirst for
knowledge and desire to excel in bis
Walter worked year in
this Office as an apprentice, and occasion
ally he quits schools aud helps US out of
q tight. At the expiration of his year
he could take manuscript of the most
difficult "spider-leg hieroglypic brand.
set it up ready for the paper without in
structions. He not only sets clean proof
but, we think, can set few "ems' more
than any boy in the state. In fact, he is
above the average country compositor.
Christmas is here with its usual joys
and pleasures. While the noisy boy is
horses in tae streets with the
inveterate frecrscker, and the more aged
and patriotic male is nearly breaking
his back to beat the best record at avil-
shooting, the wife, the mother, sister and
daughter, is in the kitchen preparing the
Christmas turkey the cake. the pies, or
some other delcacy of the culinary art.
thus we are reminded that that which
adds most to the epjoyments of mans
holidays, deprives the good housewife of
hers to some extent Tharefnra tho wo-